CD, Mathias (composer)
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Special offer. Welsh Music For Strings
RecommendedJessica Robinson, Côr Llundain, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes
Premiere recordings one and all, and an hour-long selection that will surely afford much pleasure...Prospective purchasers can rest assured that Owain Arwel Hughes obtains consistently spry... —
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2025
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Coming soon. British Music for Strings Vol. 5
Südwestdeutsches Kammerorchester Pforzheim, Douglas Bostock
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A Festival of Nine Lessons & Carols: The Centenary Service
RecommendedChoir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury
This is a priceless record not only of the centenary of the most famous carol service in the world, but of the last to be directed by Sir Stephen Cleobury after 37 years at the helm of chapel... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 29th November 2019
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In Terra Pax
RecommendedA Christmas Anthology
Julia Doyle (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone) & Mark Williams (organ and piano)
City of London Choir & Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Hilary Davan Wetton
The gem here is Finzi's In terra pax… From late in Finzi's life, it is suffused with English pastoral yearning, and baritone Roderick Williams sings beautifully in the outer sections. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th November 2009
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On Christmas Night
RecommendedCarols from St John’s College, Cambridge
John Challenger (organ)
The Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, Andrew Nethsingha
The collective vocal heft of the ensemble's young choral scholars remains a potent weapon under Andrew Nethsinga's direction. He's a man of musical refinement, however, one ready and able to... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2011
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A Christmas Caroll from Westminster Abbey
RecommendedRobert Quinney (organ)
The Choir of Westminster Abbey, James O’Donnell
An ambitious and superbly sung programme, sympathetically framed within the choir's spaciously atmospheric home acoustic. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th December 2008
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Central to this valuable anthology of Mathias's church music is the tautly concentrated Missa brevis of 1973. It’s the outer movements that are most impressive, the Kyrie drawn tensely together... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2009, Editor's Choice
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Dancing Day: Music for Christmas
Saint Thomas Choir of Men & Boys, Fifth Avenue, New York, Sara Cutler, Stephen Buzard, Benjamin Sheen
John Scott
[Scott's] sudden death earlier this year makes Dancing Day perhaps the most poignant of discs and bears testament to his phenomenal musicianship and taste. The choir is absolutely secure from... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2015, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mathias: Choral Music - A May Magnificat; Learsongs; Riddles
Hugh Crook (organ), Shanna Hart (organ), Glen Dempsey (piano), Aïda Lahlou (piano), Marie-Noëlle Kendall (piano), David Ellis (bells, chimes), St. John's Voices, The Gentlemen of St. John's, Graham Walker
Everything here is sung with freshness, security and rhythmic energy, and only at the biggest climaxes does one miss an ideal fullness of sound…the soloists [in Riddles] are from the main Choir... —
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Gramophone Magazine, Critics' Choice 2020
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Herrick's playing and imaginative use of the organ's resources are first-rate, and he's backed up by a superb recording from Hyperion. —
